Taylor Whipp
Senior Software Engineer at Gigantic Playground
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Whipp is a Solutions Engineer based in San Diego with eight years of experience building and operating cloud-native and front-end systems across startups and media organizations. He has blended roles in developer relations, cloud engineering, and senior software development—shipping collaborative SaaS tutorials and documentation at Liveblocks and driving infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, and Terraform work at O'Reilly Media. Comfortable in React, TypeScript, Next.js, and GCP, Taylor pairs practical front-end microservice design with hands-on DevOps for secure, monitored production environments. He’s navigated SOC2-related vulnerability remediation and CI/CD security integrations, demonstrating an unusual mix of compliance-first thinking and developer-focused outreach. Currently contributing to engineering and solutions functions at Gigantic Playground and Openlayer, he excels at translating technical implementation into clear user-facing guides and reproducible integrations. His background in applied statistics and early analytics roles gives him a data-minded approach to performance tuning and operational decision making.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Applied Statistics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Applied Statistics at Purdue University
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Github Skills (53)
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todoist10
preload10
brackets10
operational-transformation10
xapi10
nostr-protocol10
liveblocks10
assetbundle10
nested-objects10
multiplayer10
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Github contributions (5)
taylorpwhipp/example-interactive-rebase
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Example repo for interactive rebase tutorial
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
reactexample-reporebase
taylorpwhipp/Assessments
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
These are the weekly assessments for Learn Charlie class 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 20 days
assessmentscharlie
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